[Video] Nikon v. Canon Full-Frame Shoot-Out by Philip Bloom

Filmmaker Philip Bloom has gotten his hands on Nikon's and Canon's newest full-frame digital SLRs. Luckily for us, we get an extensive side-to-side comparison in this rather thorough shoot-out. Bloom uses the almost 30 minutes to go through resolution, aliasing, low-light, and feature comaprisons. Let us know what you think in the comments section!

I really liked the look of the Nikon D800's neutral style with the contrast all the way down in movie mode. To me it is the perfect starting point to color grade. The D800 had better dynamic range than the 5D3, that is why I think the blacks looked crushed compared to the D800.

I want to know what Phil used to film his summary at the end of this video. Whatever camera that was, THAT is the one I want. Of course it is lit and graded superbly. Kudos to Phillip Bloom and FStoppers. I wish all comparisons were this entertaining.

What I don't understand is that the C300 seems to be the one Philip uses all the time as opposed to these others but I read on Canon's website that the C300 outputs only 50 MB/s Mpeg 2. Wouldn't the internal video of Mark III be better than this? Or am I to assume Philip always uses an external recorder so I have to add on another $1000-$3000 on top of the cost of the damn camera.

When it comes to compression and Mb/s - it depends on what file format you use. From what I've read, h.264 handles compression much better, and more information can be held at much smaller file sizes, compared to let's say .mov files.

I'm no expert, just read this a few days ago. It's weird that he didn't bring it up - as well as didn't show us the difference between internal recording and external recording.